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Normaal

Normaal is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of BLØF, ZZ Top and Status Quo. Those roots explain a lot about how Normaal arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as De Dijk, Guus Meeuwis, Herman Brood, Racoon and Ilse DeLange, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 12 connections around Normaal, reaching back through BLØF. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Normaal is a Dutch rock band from the Achterhoek region, who sang in Achterhooks, a local variety of the Low Saxon. Bennie Jolink, who was an arts student at an arts academy, stationed in Amsterdam in the 1970s, started the band in 1975 as a reaction to disco and glamrock, in addition to the overall "Dutch snobbery" towards people from the Low Saxon-speaking regions, and use of the English language by many other Dutch artists. "Normaal" meaning "normal", suggesting the same: "act normally". The band has since gained national fame, and have had more top 40 hits in the Dutch chart than any other Dutch band. Despite this fact, the band never reached number one. The music could be typified as "heavy country rock", and possibly as a rowdier version of ZZ Top or Status Quo.

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NormaalBLØFZZ TopStatus QuoDe DijkGuus MeeuwisHerman BroodRacoonIlse DeLangeGerard JolingKrezipDi-rect

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Normaal connections

Normaal grew out of BLØF, ZZ Top and Status Quo, shares an orbit with De Dijk, Guus Meeuwis, Herman Brood and Racoon. 12 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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